Engineering
Have you ever spilled your coffee on your desk? You may then have observed one of the most puzzling phenomena of fluid mechanics—the coffee ring effect. This effect has hindered the industrial deployment of functional inks ...
Aug 12, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A class of materials called perovskites has emerged as a promising alternative to silicon for making inexpensive and efficient solar cells. But for all their promise, perovskites are not without their downsides. Most contain ...
Feb 13, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—A team of researchers working at Kaneka Corporation has broken the record for silicon-based solar cell efficiency by producing a cell that was tested to be 26.3-percent efficient—an increase of 0.7 percent ...
Energy & Green Tech
While silicon converts mostly the red portions of sunlight into electricity, perovskite compounds primarily utilise the blue portions of the spectrum. A tandem solar cell made of stacked silicon and perovskite thus achieves ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Using microstructured layers, an HZB team has been able to increase the efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells, achieving 25.5 percent, which is the highest published value to date. The team used computational ...
Nov 13, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
A U of T Engineering innovation could make printing solar cells as easy and inexpensive as printing a newspaper. Dr. Hairen Tan and his team have cleared a critical manufacturing hurdle in the development of a relatively ...
Feb 16, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
So far, solar cells based on polycrystalline cadmium selenide telluride (CdSeTe) have exhibited some crucial limitations, despite their low fabrication costs and advantageous qualities. Most notably, these solar cells exhibit ...
Energy & Green Tech
Crystalline silicon solar cells dominate the global photovoltaic market with module efficiencies of around 20-22%. However, the field of solar energy is wanting for innovative materials and approaches that yield even higher ...
Apr 13, 2023
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Engineering
A microwave technology invented at Macquarie University will improve the manufacture of solar cells and make them easier to recycle.
Apr 14, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Imperial researchers are designing cheaper and more flexible solar energy materials, set to rival traditional rigid silicon panels.
Jan 12, 2017
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